The important thing about this image is that there appears to be a building in the middle of Spring Street, which veered off at an oblique angle at 1st Street until it was straightened during construction of the present City Hall.

Other things to notice: Two sets of streetcar tracks, one northbound and the other southbound, and the early style of streetlights. Birkel moved to Spring in October 1901 and the absence of automobiles would tend to place this image before 1910.